Economics BSc (Hons)

This course covers current real-world issues and aims to help you understand how economics impacts individuals, businesses, financial organisations, governments and wider society. 

An emphasis is placed on equipping you with the knowledge and skills required to tackle contemporary challenges facing governments and businesses.

Why You Should Study This Course:

• Tailor your studies as our wide range of economics and finance courses share a common year one and aim to offer you opportunities to achieve a thorough grounding in economic and financial concepts and principles. 
• Explore both microeconomics and macroeconomics with extensive exposure to how national economies, businesses and other organisations operate in a global context. 
• Learn alternative schools of economic thoughts and contrast heterodox approaches with the orthodox mainstream of economic theory
• Build industry insight, learn from experienced staff and hear from industry professionals who, in the past, have included speakers from HM Treasury, Lloyds Bank, Barclays and the European Commission. (Staff may be subject to change) 
• Develop practical skills in our Bloomberg Trading Floor featuring 42 dual screen Bloomberg terminals (subject to availability).
• Access additional maths and statistics support; our sigma centre offers maths and statistics support through drop-in sessions and bookable appointments with experienced tutors. 

What You'll Study:

• Year One:
• This course has a common first year.? 
• In the first year, the curriculum is shared across finance and economics courses allowing you to gain a broad grounding in the discipline before going on, in the second and third years, to specialist modules in your chosen field. 
• We want your degree to fit around you, so upon successful completion of your first year, you could swap degrees with another course in your common first year (subject to meeting progression requirements).
• Common first year courses
• Banking and Finance BSc (Hons)Business and Finance BSc (Hons)Business Economics BSc (Hons)Finance and Investment BSc (Hons) Financial Economics BSc (Hons)Global Financial Planning BSc (Hons)
• Modules
• Principles of Microeconomics - 20 credits
• Principles of Macroeconomics - 20 credits
• Mathematics and Statistics - 20 credits
• Principles of Finance - 20 credits
• Business Accounting - 20 credits
• Entrepreneurial Thinking - 20 credits
• Year Two:
• In year two, you will continue to develop the skills and knowledge you’ve learnt. We do this by embedding the following four principles into the curriculum and developing your:??
• Technical skills – digital fluency, backed with the right academic knowledge?Study skills – to be an adaptive, independent and proactive learner?Professional skills – to have the behaviour and abilities to succeed in your career?Global awareness – the beliefs and abilities to be a resilient, confident and motivated global citizen? 
• Modules
• International Economics – 20 credits
• Evolution of Economic Thinking – 20 credits
• Intermediate Microeconomics - 20 credits
• Intermediate Macroeconomics – 20 credits
• Econometrics and Data Analysis – 20 credits
• Designing a Research Proposal – 20 credits
• Placement Year:
• There’s no better way to find out what you love doing than trying it out for yourself, which is why a work placement2 can often be beneficial. Work placements usually occur between your second and final year of study. They’re a great way to help you explore your potential career path and gain valuable work experience, whilst developing transferable skills for the future.  
• If you choose to do a work placement year, you will pay a reduced tuition fee3 of £1,250. For more information, please go to the fees and funding section. During this time you will receive guidance from your employer or partner institution, along with your assigned academic mentor who will ensure you have the support you need to complete your placement.  
• Modules
• UK Work Placement – 0 credits
• International Study/Work Placement – 0 credits
• Final Year:
• Year three aims to bring you to the level to enter the world of work by consolidating your knowledge and skills from years one and two. You could also work on a large final project in an area of your interest, with the support of a supervisor.
• Modules
• Advanced Microeconomics – Game Theory – 20 credits
• Advanced Macroeconomics – Theory and Policy – 20 credits
• Project – 40 credits
• Optional modules

How You'll Learn:

• This course adopts a range of innovative teaching, learning and assessment methods such as the use of interactive teaching and learning online platforms, online quizzes, in-class feedback sessions, group projects, class experiments and bargaining simulations.
• You will gain hands-on experience of relevant quantitative software and statistical packages, such as GRETL, as well as market leading economic and financial databases such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Economic Indicators, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), EuroStat, Refinitiv (Thomson Reuters Eikon and Datastream) and FitchConnect.
• You will also be taught in one of the largest educational trading floors in Europe4, running Bloomberg trading terminals and giving access to a wealth of live and historical trading market data.
• Typically, a module involves interactive lecture(s) weekly, delivered synchronously online or on campus, followed by a range of active learning sessions such as seminars and workshops.
• In addition, you will meet other students on the course and your tutors weekly during term time to engage in community-building activities, receive support and raise concerns relating to the course.
• We aim to offer you the opportunity to attend a range of guest lectures from industry experts who come to teach in our immersive authentic learning environments (subject to availability).